Harry Chappas

In 1997 I paid $10 for my seat. This up coming year they want $24. Sorry but that ain't gonna happen. The are losing season tickets holders quicker than the Blackhawks. Man they really know how to piss people off. If Bart is back I will reconsider. I want my seat price to move like their budget, bottom half of baseball pricing, where are they???

How many starts has Colon missed in his career? How is he any more of an injury risk than Vazquez? The money they save on Javier over Colon will be moot as Javier is a FA after this season. They also need to replace Johnson who was cheap. I felt that Colon for the $$$ and no talent being given up is better than Vazquez.

Baseball has resorted to this; There is no set formula for winning so let's try to drop our salary and hope for the best. Except the Yanks and Cubs. We could be really close again but we do nto spend and it is more obvious than ever. why would the Yanks go after Vazquez and not Colon. There is something fishy there. Is there an agreement with the Sox and Colon that can not be signed until someone goes? Konerko/Valentin for Perez/Izturis then resign Everett and Colon..... I hope it is something like this.

Did Santana blow out his arm? I thought He and Radke would be as solid a one-two as there was. Those two carried the Twins to the division.

Corg doesn't like Bart. Bart is the key to our season, simple as that. With Bart, all other non-pitching moves are irrelevant.

Do the White Sox have to offer salary arbitration to their free agents Monday in order to recieve compensation via draft picks? It will be interesting to see how Everett, Alomar and Colon are handled in these cases as they all will seek payroll increases. I think we will lose Everett and Alomar with no compensation and am very interested to see what happens with Colon. If they offer no arbitration we recieve nothing and he can not play with us until May. Is this correct?

He is a very good bunter and great defensive player. Weren't these two of our weaker points last year? Sounds like a decent move in the mold of D'Angelo Jimenez.

Looking at Meaux, why has he never been spoken of here? His control looks good. I don't understand why he is not thought of along the lines of Pachero, Sanders or like Ring was.

Let's see it will cost them Zambrano, there goes a big piece of the rotation. The loss of A-Rod pits the Rangers agaisnt the Cubs for Wood after next season. Who wins Tex???? Players are attracted to their Texas homes. Trading for A-Rod would be yet another blow to the Sosa ego as well. In two years A-Rod $27M; Sosa $18M; Prior $10+M(?) I think his deal was three years; Wood $15M on FA market; Clement (at current level) $8M = $78M good luck filling out this team.

Don't the fish have an option/arbitration on Pavano? I do nto beleive is free to the open market as of yet. If so, I'd take him in a heartbeat.

I like this kind of chatter, wheather it is true or not who cares it makes the day a little better. Lee for Perez Koch for Cedeno +$$ for salary differences Sign Fernando Vina and Sid Ponson Ordonez for Soriano/Weaver

I think it could be both as the Angels need starting pitching. The problem with this trade is we still have a poor rotation. Until we address starting pitching, these types of moves are just treading water. I would think with these moves, why not try and enter the Nomar race?

I thought we were getting to young as well but Caveman and Nossek are pretty good minds I guess. Would've liked Leyva.

Barbershop quartets played in front of the stadium.

Not sure why I hate this move but it looks more and more like a bunch of 20 year olds taking over a Pony league team and everyone looking like morons. Welcome to the 2004 White Sox. If you told me this at the All-Star break, I would've laughed really hard. This team never fails to embarass themselves. Good way to surround yourself with baseball minds. I do not envy Joe Nossek. Combined experience at each level of coaching at the major league level; Cooper (1 1/2 yr.) Santana (1 yr) Walker ( 1/2 yr) Cora (0yr) Guillen (0 yr) Nick Leyva, hell Bruce Kimm would've looked better. The lack of respect in the locker room from the players for this group is going to be a f***ing joke. welcome to 1987.

That was his role with the Angels. They didn't think he could do the job, not sure why we think he can all of a sudden. The Angels had a solid bullpen and crappy rotation and still didn't want him in there.

Podsednik is a stud, they do have a bunch of good kids. How old is he? I liked Alex Sanchez a ton, who did they get for him?

The Brewers system definitely has taken a turn for the better. From AA down, it is pretty well stocked with potential high impact prospects. Wonder if this means Roland Hemond may be cutting back or leaving? or we found our replacement for KW.

I purposed this a week or so ago. I would also look into getting the Red Sox involved and try and get Nomar while shifting cash around. Rangers - Manny +$5M a season for remainder of K from Boston = ($10M payroll) Sox - A-Rod = $0 payroll affect this year Boston - Maggs/Konerko - $5M to Texas = $25M in salary but free up cash for Nomar and Pedro in future year. This sounds goofy but it is kind of off the top of my head.

Next up, Director of Player Development and Financal Control for the Tigers?

Excuse me... I said it was BULL s***. How do you know "Love Sidney?" I actually am kind of starting to like him. Sure KW will f*** it up.

Can you pull up Colon's stats at 27 and compare to Ponson. I think the age thing will really work for Sid.

Are you kidding 4 AB's? It won't take near that long, all he has to do is take a first pitch strike in his first AB and everyone will start complaining... LOL It certainly didn't take Neal Cotts long to "suck" The difference is that Cotts downfall (control,) is very hard to correct. This is why I do not think we will see Cotts perform at the major league level. If he does not have control he will not make it. He can not overpower people. If they could package Cotts and Borchard for Vazquez, I would nto be too put off. I think the two hardest things to teach are strike zone discipline (cutting down strikeouts,) for a hitter and control for a pitcher. The things Borchard and Cotts lack and one of the pluses for Reed.

I don't know about the whole thing. Thomas and JR are suppossed to be pretty close as are Ozzie and JR apparently. Shouldn't this conversation have come up especially with Frank being allowed to file for free agency?and Ozzie being a prominent candidate?

Colon, our season starts and ends right here. There is no discussion of success next season without him.